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This year-long high school physics curriculum situates standards-based science learning in authentic contexts. Students undertake extended workplace-related projects where they acquire and apply science knowledge and skills. The curriculum is based on the principle that all students learn better and more deeply when they learn in context, and on the belief that such an approach offers students who have not been engaged by abstract science the opportunity to achieve on a par with their peers. Units include:

Unit 1 Kinematics: Toys in Motion

Unit 2 Forces and Motion: On the Road Again

Unit 3 Electricity and Simple Circuits: Restoring a Heartbeat

Unit 4 Generators and Diodes: Building a Better Bike Light

Unit 5 Energy: Live from WPTW!

This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (ESI-9618149).